Tel Aviv, July 20 -- The Israeli Prime Minister's Office has strongly criticised New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani following statements that his administration is examining legal avenues to detain the Israeli leader during his upcoming visit to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September.

The official response, issued on Sunday, dismissed the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu as "bogus" and labelled the international body a "kangaroo court" that possesses no jurisdiction over either Israel or the United States. The statement further alleged that former ICC prosecutor Karim Khan had initiated the warrant as a diversionary tactic to deflect from subsequent allegations of sexual miscon...